Australian scientists think AZ vaccine may not help attain herd immunityhttps://www.smh.com.au/national/scientists-call-for-pause-on-astrazeneca-vaccine-rollout-20210112-p56tjt.html …
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Most of the approvals are currently emergency ones based on the fact that the vaccines prevent symptomatic and severe disease, and Astra is effective by that measure. We have to wait and see whether these vaccines will prevent the disease from spreading entirely
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Thanks, that's very useful. The article says something about a vaccine needing to be atleast 70% effective to prevent significant transmission, but I guess the 70% they are talking about is different from AZ's 62% (in that, the latter is efficacy against symptomatic disease)?
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In all discussions on the 3 vaccines (approved in West so far), it's interesting how any comment on one in absolute terms is often misread as relative comment on the others. Especially things like will vaccine X protect against variant Y.
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Sure, but in the article I shared, the scientists seem to be explicitly batting for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
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